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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: codek on Fri, 12 November 2010, 19:37:25

Title: Need to glue together a keyboard parts
Post by: codek on Fri, 12 November 2010, 19:37:25

I need a good compound to glue together plastic ibm model m parts that broke off.  

Recommend some please.

Title: Need to glue together a keyboard parts
Post by: msiegel on Fri, 12 November 2010, 19:39:20

which parts broke?

Title: Need to glue together a keyboard parts
Post by: codek on Sat, 13 November 2010, 01:36:39

Quote from: ripster;246165

Here (http://geekhack.org/showpost.php?p=127941&postcount=97) is the best stuff.  Used it to repair a Industrial M13 broken in transit.

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same thing happened to me.  There is crack on bottom corner of my keyboard.  Thank God I found the piece inside.  Also the left mount broke off so I have to epoxy it on.  

This all happened even though the keyboard was well packed.  It's gotta be the weight.

Thanks Ripster, you are a keyboard Genius!

Title: Need to glue together a keyboard parts
Post by: Findecanor on Sat, 13 November 2010, 06:55:43

Make sure that you get the "plastic repair" epoxy, and not just any epoxy. The right type should have some kind (or several kinds) of solvent in them that will penetrate the plastic and cause chemical bonds to form when it dries away.

Title: Need to glue together a keyboard parts
Post by: codek on Sat, 13 November 2010, 17:29:27

Quote from: Findecanor;246264

Make sure that you get the "plastic repair" epoxy, and not just any epoxy. The right type should have some kind (or several kinds) of solvent in them that will penetrate the plastic and cause chemical bonds to form when it dries away.

thanks for the heads up!